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The Ladies of Llangollen
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The hell of hay fever
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David's loyalty to King Saul. A sermon preached at Westminster-Abby, on Monday, January 31. 1714. Being the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I. of ever Blessed Memory. By William Reading, M. A. Keeper of the London Clergy's Library in Sion College.
Reading, William, 1674-1744.Date: 1715- Books
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A black scene opened; being the true state of Mr. John Kendrick's gifts to the town of Reading. And of the decree which was made by the Barons of the Exchequer in the fourteenth year of King Charles the First, in Favour of the Poor of the said Town. And also of the misapplication of the lands and rents ever since. Published by John Watts, Esq. in the year 1749; copied from, and compared with, the original by William Grant Deacle, Schoolmaster, Reading, Berks.
Watts, John, of Reading.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXCI. [1791]
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Secrets Reveal'd: or, an open entrance to the Shut-Palace of the King: Containing, the greatest treasure in chymistry, Never yet so plainly Discovered. / Composed by a most famous English-man, styling himself Anonymus, or Eyraeneus [sic] Philaletha Cosmopolita [pseud.]: Who, by Inspiration and Reading, attained to the Philosophers Stone at his Age of Twenty three Years, Anno Domini, 1645. Published for the Benefit of all English-men, by W.C. Esq. [i.e. William Cooper], a true lover of Art and Nature
Philalethes, EirenaeusDate: 1669- Books
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A sett of new Psalm-Tunes and anthems, in four parts: on various occasions, Viz. For Christmas-Day, the Martyrdom of the Blessed King Charles I. Easter-Day, Ascension-Day, or the Sunday after, Whitsunday, the Happy Restoration of King Charles II. Gun-Powder-Treason; for the Use of the People of Blandford, on the Fourth of June, being the Day that the Town was destroy'd by Fire, on a King or Queen's Accession to the Throne, for the Holy Sacrament, Weddings, Funerals, &c. By William Knapp. The second edition corrected. With an additional number of several new anthems and psalm-tunes by the author, never Printed before, together with an excellent Anthem in Six Parts, by a very eminent Master; and an Introduction to Psalmody, after a Plain and Familiar Manner.
Date: [1741]- Books
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An excellent ballad of the deposing of King Richard the Second, and how, after many miseries, he was barbarously murder'd in Pomfret Castle. Tune of, Regard my sorrows.
Date: [1730?]